First records of Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from one island of the Comoros Archipelago Author Kreiter, Serge CBGP, Montpellier SupAgro, INRA, CIRAD, IRD, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France. Author Payet, Rose-My CIRAD, UPR Hortsys, Station de Bassin-Plat, 97410, Saint-Pierre, Réunion, France. Author Fillâtre, Jacques Armeflhor, 1 Chemin de l’IRFA, 97410 Saint-Pierre, Réunion, France. Author Azali, Hamza Abdou INRAPE, Moroni, Grande Comore, Union des Comores. text Acarologia 2018 2018-06-01 58 3 529 545 http://dx.doi.org/10.24349/acarologia/20184256 journal article 8382 10.24349/acarologia/20184256 d0bb6e50-1f75-42fb-992b-f17a514337df 2107-7207 4502529 BABDD080-D2D0-46F6-8172-442298192D42 Phytoseius amba Pritchard & Baker Phytoseius ( Pennaseius ) amba Pritchard & Baker 1962: 224 ; Blommers, 1976: 85 ; Phytoseius ( Phytoseius ) amba , Denmark , 1966: 49 ; Typhlodromus ( Pizytoseius ) amba , Van der Merwe, 1968: 101 ; Phytoseius amba , Swirski & Ragusa, 1978: 408 ; Pennaseius amba , Matthysse & Denmark, 1981: 352 ; Phytoseius amba , Moraes et al. , 1986: 210 ; 2004: 232; Chant & McMurtry, 2007: 129 . Species of the genus Phytoseius are supposed to belong to the Type III species ( McMurtry and Croft 1997; McMurtry et al. 2013 ), i.e. a polyphagous generalist predator. However, the biology of Phytoseius amba remains totally unknown. Specimens examined — Mdé , INRAPE (long. 11°41′S , lat. 43°14′E , alt. 50 m ), 1 ♀ on Annona muricata L. ( Annonaceae ), 2-02-2017 . Previous Records — Benin , Burundi , Cameroon , Cape Verde , DR Congo , Kenya , Madagascar Island , Malawi , Mozambique , Nigeria , Reunion Island , Rwanda , Senegal , South Africa , Zambia , Zimbabwe . Remarks ( Table 6 ) — The setae lengths seem very variable in this species following data of the literature. Measurements of the single adult female ( Table 6 ) agree well with measurements of the literature, especially with those of Ueckermann et al. (2007) obtained with a great number of specimens (29) from various countries in Africa, with the exception of longer j3 and z3 , shorter st5-st5, ventrianal shield length and width at the level of anus and macrosetae of the basitarsus and telotarsus.